Hey everyone! I know I sort of fell off the face of the earth for the last month or so. If you don't follow me on Instagram, which is the only real place I share everyday life happenings, we recently sold our house and downsized to a new place. It happened rather quickly, and we were actually in-between homes for several weeks.
I haven't done too much creating the last 2 months or so, what with packing up an entire house, and storing it all - both in a storage unit, as well as my parent's and my brother's garage. Most of my scrapbooking supplies and such went into storage, but I did keep out my Jillibean Soup products, as I knew I would need to create a few layouts during those weeks in-between homes.
I created three layouts, sitting at my brother and sister-in-law's dining room table. And I went pretty old school, as the only tools I had were my trimmer, my edge distresser, and my scissors. I didn't keep out my Silhouette machine or my sewing machine - although I did luck out, as I had a few die cut background that I had saved from previous projects, where they didn't get used or portions of them didn't get used. I had a single row of a circle background, and it was all that I needed for this layout, as you can see above.
Jillibean Soup came out with some foam stickers with their two newest collections, and they ended up being just what I needed to create the titles for a couple of my layouts. I usually use my Silhouette to create parts of my titles, and fill in with alpha stickers when needed. These larger foam sticker words worked great for my titles on their own.
I used lots of patterned papers from the new Garden Harvest collection for this layout. When I was thinking of photos that I could use with it, this family photo from Mother's Day 2017 came to mind. We had gone out to visit Joe's mom, along with his brother and our niece, and I'm so glad we thought to get a photo together before we left. The colors in the photo worked perfectly with this collection.
To add a little interest to the yellow patterned paper strip - rather than having a straight edge - I tore the paper lengthwise, which is a super simple technique that was popular years ago. Overall, this is a really simple layout. But there was something sort of refreshing about limiting what I had to work with.
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